PRACTICAL APPLIED ZOOLOGY

Paper Code: 
DZOL512B
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

 

DZOL512B

PRACTICAL

APPLIED ZOOLOGY

   

 

The students will be able to-

CO 1: Recognize ecologically important and harmful insects. Understand the nature of the damage done by an insect pest.

CO 2: Relate how arthropods work as vectors of Human diseases and affect human society.

CO 3: Design the set up of Pisciculture, dairy farming, poultry keeping, leather industry and wool industry

 

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test

Semester end examinations,

Quiz

Assignments

Presentation

Individual and group projects

 

  1. Study of Plasmodium vivax, Entamoeba histolytica, Trypanosoma gambiense, Ancylostoma duodenale and Wuchereria bancrofti and their life stages through permanent slides/photomicrographs or specimens.

  2. Study of arthropod vectors associated with human diseases: Pediculus, Culex, Anopheles, Aedes and Xenopsylla.

  3. Study of insect damage to different plant parts/stored grains through damaged products/photographs.

  4. Identifying feature and economic importance of Helicoverpa (Heliothis) armigera, Papilio demoleus, Pyrilla perpusilla, Callosobruchus chinensis, Sitophilus oryzae and Tribolium castaneum

  5. Visit to poultry farms or animal breeding centres. Submission of visit report

  6. Maintenance of freshwater aquarium

 

 

Essential Readings: 

SUGGESTED READINGS

  • Park, K. (2007). Preventive and Social Medicine. XVI Edition. B.B Publishers.

  • Arora, D. R and Arora, B. (2001). Medical Parasitology. II Edition. CBS Publications and Distributors.

  • Kumar and Corton. Pathological Basis of Diseases.

  • Atwal, A.S. (1986). Agricultural Pests of India and South East Asia, Kalyani Publishers.

  • Dennis, H. (2009). Agricultural Entomology. Timber Press (OR).

  • Hafez, E. S. E. (1962). Reproduction in Farm Animals. Lea & Fabiger Publisher

  • Dunham R.A. (2004). Aquaculture and Fisheries Biotechnology Genetic Approaches. CABI publications, U.K.

  • Pedigo, L.P. (2002). Entomology and Pest Management, Prentice HalL

Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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